「 Second Time Around」

「 chapter two」

"This brat...!" Izuna glared. "It's fine, calm down, he's only a kid." 

"I did," he replied, slightly annoyed. He held out a pair of tanto blades. "Here," he tossed them to the surprised-looking Hatake, who caught them with ease. "You seem to really like the tanto blade of yours, but it looked kind of big. So I got some that look are better for your size. Don't worry, it has that same properties of the one you have right now. At least I think it does."

The team remained silent for a moment. "What?" Izuna asked, crossing his arms.

"Wow! You really changed, Obito-kun. I didn't really believe it when you said you did, but since you remember Kakashi and personalized some weapons for him...I guess you did!" Rin cried, clapping her hands together. 

Minato nodded. "Yeah, that's right. And..." he turned to Kakashi. "What do you say?"

Kakashi grunted and turned away, embarrassed. "...Thanks." he finally muttered out.

Izuna smirked, prideful as always. "You're welcome."

Rin smiled happily. Their friendship had gotten stronger! Good job, Obito. 

Rin ran up to the two and placed her arms around both of their necks. She leaned her weight down and swung slightly as she grinned at the two. "Let's get going!"

"Oi, Rin-chan! You're going to break my neck!" Izuna cried, trying to push her off. 

Rin pouted and stuck her tongue out. "Come on, we're going to have to be serious soon. I wanna play around before then!"

"Ugh..." Izuna sighed. What she was saying was true, so he couldn't exactly refute it. "Oh, alright."

She grinned. "Let's get going, Team Minato! We're off to save the world!"

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"Watch out!" 

Izuna ducked as soon as he heard Rin shout. A kunai aimed to kill swung over his head and lodged into the tree behind him. He turned and spotted a Iwa nin running at him with a katana. 

He swiftly jumped sideways, avoiding the nin's hasty swings. He continued to evade his attacks until he saw an opening, and quietly plunged his own weapon into his back.

Across the battlefield, Kakashi was taking care of two Iwa nin himself. He had managed to take one down, but another one would quickly jump into the other's place. 

Kakashi grimaced and hasitly beformed his hand signs. A distinct chirping noise filled the air as he activated his newly made justu; the Chidori.

He swung his hand across the ninja's easily cutting through their armor and taking both of them down. As soon as he did however, he collapsed, exhausted. Thankfully, Izuna and Rin had managed to protect their teammate, which allowed him to attack his opponent without the fear of a counter-attack.

Izuna had killed most of the Iwa nin attacking them, and soon joined his team where Rin was healing the boy's wounds as much as she could.

"H-here," Rin's hands fumbled with the lock on her weapon pouch. She pulled out a soldier pill and shoved it into his mouth. "This'll give you some more energy."

"Are you guys alright?" Izuna asked as he searched the bodies of the ninja's for some stray weapons. Spotting a pile of shuriken, he gladly picked them up and tucked them into his weapon pouch.